Apache DirectoryMatch for Intranet-Style Access

I needed to ensure that within a rather large directory structure any directory named 'intranet' was only accessible by internal IP addresses. Although from a security perspective this is not truly intranet it can help protect some... » More

Install RealPlayer on Ubuntu (9.04)

I wanted to try out Real Player on a radio station stream so ...Visit: http://www.real.com/linuxClick the Deb download link and Open with the GDebi Package Installer as prompted.The installer may pause so click the 'Terminal' arrow and type 1 then press... » More

Easy Peasy on the eeepc

I decided to have a play installing Easy Peasy on the 7" eeepc I borrowed from my sister.Setting it up was quite easy:1. Download the iso (at a whopping 800Mb)2. Download the helper script, make it executable and run it3. Choose the iso and specify a USB... » More

Shell Script: Search Apache Logs

This shell script is for future reference. Used to copy zip apache log files into a temporary directory by day/month. Log files are unzipped and then searched for the strings we are looking for. It could be tidied... » More

Example robots.txt

Not all crawlers obey all of these rules but as a reference point. The crawl delay is the number of seconds between requests and the newer request-rate is set here to not more than 1 every 5 seconds. The crawlers are also asked to visit during the... » More

Apache LDAP Authentication to Active Directory

I was testing authentication against Active Directory (LDAP) using Apache 2. The following worked for me in a .htaccess file but only after adding:LDAPVerifyServerCert Offin the main httpd.conf file. I presume this is related to the server name in the... » More

Windows 7

Having a look at Windows 7 and coming from using Ubuntu solidly for the last 4 years I find it just as irritating as Vista - but I need to give it a bit more time to form an unbiased opinion.From a personal perspective there are some things I prefer for... » More

PHP, Pear, PECL and UploadProgress

I had need to use the UploadProgress and SMTP Mail PECL PHP extensions so a brief overview:Check pear is installed and working:# which pearTo get a list of help/commands:# pear helpRun the updates: # pear channel-update pear.php.netShow the installed... » More